have always liked brent as a player.would certainly add depth and importantly experience to our list.at 29 he would have to be cheap but it seems he ready to walk anyway.
what i want to know is where does it say you cant take 28 plus yr olds to improve your list. seems to me after all the crying over the gc game making finals is important to most. well maloney would certainly go a long way in helping us make finals. as long as you use your top 50 picks on kids and thus cater to the long term with hopefully quality you are probably better of targeting proven players than kids late nd and rookie draft.
just a scenario.
caddy pick 10 or there abouts. two picks around 30 on mids and both play 10 plus games first yr. pick around 50 on a tall pick around 68 on a need.possibly mid. psd maloney, free agency chaplin or say merrett. a couple of mature state league players with rookie picks two come to mid tom lee and max duffy for instance.
we could grow the list with 20yo caddy maloney chaplin, 22yo lee and 20 yo duffy and still heavily participate in the nd.
what would people rather have say a 29 yr old podsiadly who gives 5 or so very good yrs of high quality footy or take a punt on a skinny kid in the rookie draft where every single indicator says hes likely to fail after we hang onto him for 2 yrs. and if he makes it we will wait 3 yrs anyway.
as long as we retain out top 50 picks it really doesnt matter the age of the players we take. as long as they can play if they are older.
